We have an unofficial moratorium on “Don’t Stop Believin’” covers here at PopWatch (oh, who are we kidding, no we don’t), but I’m now prepared to break it for this shaky, out-of-focus, but still strangely awesome video from last night’s star-studded fund-raising concert at Carnegie Hall. (Check it out after the jump.) READ FULL STORY »
Tag: Lady Gaga (91-100 of 101)
May 13
2010
07:42 PM ET
Violins make everything better, even Lady Gaga
The Top 40 music landscape generally disinterests me, but I do love it when young musicians on YouTube take a popular song and, in the broken-record words of the Idol judges, “make it their own.” Enter Paul Dateh, a 27-year-old violinist from Los Angeles (and USC alumnus, Fight On!) who made this slick mash-up video featuring current hits by Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Rihanna, and Usher. Mighty impressive, and long live the strings! READ FULL STORY »
May 11
2010
02:34 PM ET
Sixth-grade 'Paparazzi' singer better than Bieber?
The Web is going crazy for Greyson, the young man who performed a killer cover of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” at his sixth-grade festival. (Watch it after the jump, along with the Lady Gaga acoustic performance that no doubt inspired him.) His voice is amazing. The little girls love him. (Jezebel has some nice screengrabs.) And I’m personally obsessed with his decision not to say the word “eyeliner” but to leave in “cigarettes.” Also, his ability to make me experience a pang for Taylor Hanson.
Could we be looking at the next Bieber? Should you think he’s a one-hit wonder, we’ve also embedded two of his original songs: “Stars” (about a woman dying of cancer) and “Broken Hearts” (he begins the performance by fixing his hair, but don’t let that stop you from watching). READ FULL STORY »
May 6
2010
08:54 AM ET
'American Idol': On the scene for Top 5 results night. Even though Lady Gaga wasn't.
Image Credit: Michael Becker/FoxHi, PopWatchers. How are you this morning? What did you have for breakfast? Anyone catch that Los Suns-Spurs playoff game? Love watching Steve Nash at work. That is one exciting basketball player.
Huh? Oh, was there an episode of American Idol last night? Yes, that’s right — I was there. I remember now. What happened? (SPOILER ALERT!) Well, Aaron Kelly went home, which was kind of a shock, but not really. Also, Lady Gaga performed on tape from last week, so I watched her performance of “Alejandro” on a screen, just like you. Everything else was as it always is: The judges walked out during commercials, then back in when we went on-air. Cory the Warmup Comedian gave away iPods. The CBS pages seemed a little more aggro than usual Um. Oh! There was a sign-language interpreter in the house! Is that jazzy? No? Argh. THIS… is not going to be overly fascinating. You should totally follow me after the jump anyway. Oh please, like you’d rather be getting work done?
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Apr 29
2010
03:32 PM ET
Lady Gaga, Neil Patrick Harris make the 'Time 100'
Image Credit: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images; Koichi Kamoshida/Getty ImagesTime has released its annual list of the world’s most influential people — 100 artists, heroes, leaders, and thinkers who affect our world. You’ll find Iron Man director Jon Favreau explaining how Elon Musk was the inspiration for Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark in Thinkers, and Bono waxing poetic on Bill Clinton and Robert De Niro riffing on Ben Stiller (StillerStrong.org) in Heroes. But obviously, it’s the Artists category we flipped to first. Among those making the cut: Conan O’Brien, Glee‘s Lea Michele, Lost‘s Carlton Cruse and Damon Lindelof, James Cameron, Sandra Bullock, Simon Cowell, Robert Pattinson, Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, Elton John, Prince, Ricky Gervais, Ashton Kutcher, Penny Arcade’s Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, fashion designer Marc Jacobs, chef David Chang, conductor Valery Gergiev, blogger Han Han, artist Banksy, and authors Suzanne Collins and Chetan Bhagat. Three of the write-ups that stood out for me: READ FULL STORY »
Apr 29
2010
08:00 AM ET
'American Idol': Rascal Flatts, Shakira, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas and...Lady Gaga? (On the scene for Top 6 results)
Image Credit: Michael Becker/Fox/PictureGroupThis is gonna be kinda weird, dear readers. Not Rascal Flatt’s Gary LaVox trying to dance with Shakira weird, or Shakira trying to quote Roosevelt and/or Casey Kasem weird. But, well, there’s not all that much to tell you about the on-the-scene action during last night’s live American Idol results show. As you may have gathered, a good half of the evening was pre-taped, and the judges and contestants were nowhere to be seen when the cameras weren’t broadcasting live.
However, after the show was over and the 19 Entertainment logo had chirped, none other than Lady Gaga invaded the Idoldome, and, shockingly, she decided to put on an insanely elaborate spectacle involving a 20 foot (or so) working fountain and a half-dozen (or so) half-naked male dancers. Of course, you at home won’t get to see her performance until it airs during an upcoming results show, so my descriptions of it may not exactly make a whole heap of sense — and Lady Gaga already enjoys tango dancing on the far edge of basic visual comprehension anyway. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 18
2010
01:29 PM ET
Lady Gaga on 'American Idol': Oh la la?
Image Credit: Lady Gaga: Albert L. Ortega/PR Photos; Idol: Fox Lady Gaga will be performing on American Idol May 5, according to a tweet she sent out late Friday night. “See you on American Idol. MAY 5th, Little Monsters,” she wrote, with a link to a performance of “Telephone” on a Japanese TV show.
I’m a little disappointed that Lady Gaga won’t be on May 4, too, as that week’s mentor, because holy crap could this season of Idols use a few lessons in star power, the art of performance, and how to distinguish themselves from other artists. I’m imagining Lady G in a wig made of, like, pulled-pork sandwiches trying to get Lee DeWyze be bolder or something. I’m imagining it…and loving it.
Are you excited to see Lady Gaga back on the Idol stage, PopWatchers?
Apr 8
2010
06:14 PM ET
McDonald's in Germany launches New York City-themed cupcakes: The pop culture dessert trend continues
Can anyone tell me when cupcakes suddenly became the trendiest dessert around? Sure, we can blame Sex and the City, which helped turn Magnolia Bakery into a phenom following a season three episode that featured Miranda and Carrie indulging in the treat. (The Magnolia across the street is constantly filled with customers…or sad, lonely sugar fiends who simply want to watch through the window as the bakers frost their cakes each morning. Not that I would know what time that happens.) But now, cupcakes have traveled across the Atlantic, where McDonald’s in Germany is not only honoring the trendy treats, but an American city known for making them as well. Presenting straight from Deutschland: New York City-themed cupcakes! READ FULL STORY »
Mar 24
2010
02:58 PM ET
Lady Gaga's designer to launch capsule line for Forever 21: Police tape for everyone!
Just when you thought Lady Gaga’s fashion was unattainable, inaccessible, or prohibited from being worn in many public places, one of the designers who helped shape the wacky yet fabulous look of her Tarantino-tinged “Telephone” video has made the art of Gaga possible for the rest of us. L.A.-based designer Brian Lichtenberg, who crafted the now-famous crime scene tape number that Gaga donned in the video, is creating a line of graphic tees for Forever 21, making it the mega-chain’s first designer collaboration.
His designs have also found fans in Beyoncé and Rihanna, though the avant-garde factor will presumably be tamed down a bit for the mass market. But even with some dilution, I’m expecting cool prints and cut-outs, and hopefully a few nods to his celebrity work. The line sounds like it’d be the perfect weekend option — just cross your fingers that you don’t cross paths with a 12-year-old rocking the same tee.
What do you guys think of the design collaboration? Are you going to get a piece of Gaga for yourself?
Photo: PopWatch
Mar 17
2010
03:24 PM ET
Lady Gaga wears Soda Cans in her hair; What other household objects should go Gaga?
Today, Lady Gaga showed up in the Sydney airport with Diet Coke cans in her hair. I have several questions. Does this mean that Lady Gaga is in favor of the proposed New York soda tax? Is she explicitly referencing Andy Warhol’s Coke Bottles? How does this fit into the final season of Lost? Did she just run out of curlers?
Gaga debuted the Coke-can look in her recent video, “Telephone,” a hyper-referential decadent-trash opera that we here at EW.com have not been shy about loving. (Seriously, it’s fantastic.) The thing that I like most about Gaga is how she can take something that seems very banal – soda cans, crutches, a honey bun, a piano – and make that thing seem deeply perverse and uncomfortably alive. It’s a little bit H.R. Giger and a little bit X-rated anime, and it’s got me thinking: What other blandly normal things can Gaga turn crazy with her spooky-scary magic?
Just looking around my desk, I’m seeing a stapler, a pink highlighter, and a pile of post-it notes. I’m picturing a music video set in an Office Space-ish cubicle world. A spaceship from Neptune and/or the future crashlands. Gaga emerges, wearing a dress made entirely of post-it notes. A battle ensues when the locals fire exploding mini-lasers out of their pink highlighters. That’s when the dancing staplers show up, and things get NSFW.
This is fun! PopWatchers, what things from your daily life would you like to see Lady Gaga turn into a Pop Art fashion object?
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